Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 17th week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region.

As the US dollar tanks value amid tariff turmoil, Central Asian migrant workers are benefitting from a surging Russian ruble – bringing a huge boost in remittances sent home.

Will the US recognize Crimea as Russian? Is NATO membership out of the question for Kyiv? Will Ukraine’s largest nuclear ...

Farmers in Uzbekistan allege they are being forced to cede fertile land to Chinese businesses under pressure from local ...

Russian film critic Yekaterina Barabash, under house arrest for opposing the war in Ukraine, has gone missing. Authorities ...

A Russian drone attack hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian town of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, local authorities said.

A Russian drone attack hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian town of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk region on April 23, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, local ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on the uncertain path of the "coalition of the ...

Ukrainian rescuers discovered a shaken but spirited canine survivor in the ruins of a Sumy region home following overnight ...

Tehran is ready to ease US concerns over its nuclear activities but scrapping uranium enrichment is off the table, Foreign ...

Russian bloggers and tabloids warn of “black widows” -- women allegedly marrying soldiers to claim death benefits if they die fighting in Ukraine. The claims are stoking public outrage and raising ...

You are listening to the audio version of the Wider Europe newsletter, published on April 22, 2025, read by an AI-generated voice of RFE/RL's Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak.